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authorjohn stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>2007-08-22 17:01:10 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-08-22 22:52:44 -0400
commit187226f57f1381cfc63216979b4375f30e593795 (patch)
tree0bda40993e1794363bf6570614584b03f1de55e9
parent42b88e6ad4014d290d6b59dfeb5d6949c5a3f346 (diff)
futex_unlock_pi() hurts my brain and may cause application deadlock
Avoid futex_unlock_pi returning -EFAULT (which results in deadlock), by clearing uval before jumping to retry_locked. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--kernel/futex.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index 3415e9ad1391..e8935b195e88 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -1670,6 +1670,7 @@ pi_faulted:
1670 attempt); 1670 attempt);
1671 if (ret) 1671 if (ret)
1672 goto out; 1672 goto out;
1673 uval = 0;
1673 goto retry_unlocked; 1674 goto retry_unlocked;
1674 } 1675 }
1675 1676